#Understanding Trans Health
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Mis Hanes LHDT+ 2024 / LGBT+ History Month 2024
Mis Hanes LHDT+ Hapus 2024! Heddiw yw diwrnod olaf y mis, ond dwi'n dathlu’n hwyr gyda fy hoff lyfrau sy'n dylanwadu ar fy ngwaith.
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Happy LGBT+ History Month 2024! Today is the last day of the month, but I'm celebrating late with my favourite books that have influenced my work.
Y llyfr heddiw yw 'Understanding Trans Health' gan Ruth Pearce, a gyhoeddwyd yn 2018
Mae'r llyfr hwn yn hollbwysig i unrhyw un sy'n astudio pobl draws yn y DU yn yr 21ain Ganrif. Yn llawn hanes traws a meddygaeth draws, mae'r llyfr hwn yn disgrifio'r dirwedd feddygol y mae pobl draws a meddygon CHR yn ei hwynebu yn y presennol. Roedd y llyfr yn ddefnyddiol iawn ar gyfer fy ngwaith israddedig y llynedd.
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Today's book is 'Understanding Trans Health by Ruth Pearce', published 2018.
This book is essential for anyone studying trans people in the UK in the 21st Century. Full of trans history and trans medicine, this book describes the medical landscape that trans people and GIC doctors face presently. The book was very useful for my undergraduate work last year.
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Ydych chi wedi darllen y llyfr hwn? / Have you read this book?
#cymraeg#welsh#lhdt#cwiar#llyfrau#Ruth Pearce#Understanding Trans Health#Gender Identity Clinics#trans medicine#trans health#trawsryweddol#traws#trawsrywiol#anneuaidd#cymblr#Llyfrau Mawrth
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Fuck I hate being an adult. I need a more adult adult to help with the volatile emotional situation.
#I've sort of made a new friend? Like we met at the same art group and he's also trans which was like pleasantly surprising in our small town#but like. We have Differences Of Opinion#and it's not totally his fault because it sounds like he's had a Lot of bad shit in his past that's obviously made him wary and closed off#but like. He's slightly older than me (only 4 years) and keeps blaming a load of his problems on other trans folks?#like you know the type. The like 'all these nonbinary/other identities the kids are doing are complicating shit'#the 'it hurts to see people younger than me inc. kids get hormones thrown at them when I still can't get 'em' (which... yeah not even true)#and he's told me himself he doesn't engage much with the queer community bc it's too 'toxic'#and like. I can absolutely understand why he could've had some bad experiences esp. since he has some mental health shit going on#but he wants to be friends bc he doesn't know anyone else going through the medical shit and it's like. Yeah no shit you don't?#you decided the community you'd find them in is toxic? and that people in them are doing being trans wrong?#and I think if he was just some guy online I'd like roll my eyes and ignore him#but he's a real person in my vicinity and I feel fucking bad for him#and I can see how much self loathing he has and how much that probably informs the bullshit#like he told me he thinks that trans men and cis men are fundamentally different categories and trans men will never be cis men#but not in a 'the experiences are just different and come with different perspectives way'#in like a self defeating way. Like a I just have to settle for being a trans man way.#and it made me SO SAD#like bro#I'm so sorry for whoever the fuck made you feel like you're fighting an unwinnable battle#and I want to be a friend to him. I want him to feel like there's other queer people out there and there's friends and hope#but also I genuinely could see him being the kind of person who would get really angry at you for no fault of your own#like I already get the distinct feeling he resents me a little#like obviously not too much since he still wants to hang#but he's been trying and failing to get HRT for years and I got it super quickly basically by sheer luck/a doctor who looks out for me#like I'm so fucking lucky. And I just genuinely feel like he's the kind of person who might take that personally.#I just do not think I have the fucking. Emotional tool kit to salvage this shit#But I also can't exactly text him and say sorry I don't think we should hang out so. What do.#.....I wasn't even LOOKING for a new friend! I have enough friends!!! I wanted to make clay faces and look at pretty buildings dammit!!!#now I have to be the emotionally mature one who goes hmmm maybe let's not blame other depressed trans kids for our problems buddy#I'm just gonna have to be like. Upfront about my stance and if he doesn't like it well he doesn't have to hang out with me
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen one account so dedicated to making the most disingenuous statements as this one:
Her whole platform is clearly built off retweeting every slightly gender critical thought and putting the most absurd spin of the original tweet. Having any marketing that shows disembodied “female” (read: barbie doll) legs is disturbing and misogynistic. Saying 1 in 3 people get cervix cancer is blatantly false. Even her twisted statement is untrue. Plenty of women (especially those whose first language differs from the one spoken in their country) are woefully uneducated about cervix cancer. Women being told they should get screened for a disease because it is female-specific doesn’t make them dumb. This women has thrown women and their issues under the boss for the sake of a steady ~4K Twitter engagement. And for what? What does her “activism” actually achieve? Why bother going after an account like the above one that has like 50 followers and 500 likes on the original post just because you’re so obsessed with owning the terves
#like I really don’t understand this#her other tweets are just as absurd#trying to prove that men (apart from trans men) should be included when discussing endometriosis#and when someone responded that only 29 or so men have been shown to get it#she responded that just because it’s rare doesn’t mean that it should be included#29/4 billion men and it should br regarded as a health issue for them#like what????!
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No, real question. How you a transmed and nonbinary?
#thotty speaks#They said 'oh people don't take you tenderqueer nbs seriously cause yall won't get on hrt/get surgery to show us youre serious#Look I want to get on t. I wanna do a lot of things to make me feel more at home in my body that I'm not sure about yet#Safety wise etc and it just...as a Black person for you to not understand other Black trans people being hesitant abt jumping into surgery#or worrying about pricing and post surgery care and being under medicated etcetc#Not to mention that I shouldn't have to do these things at YOUR pace to prove that I'm trans like...#You got top surgery money? You tryin to nurse me back to health when I take days to try to heal?#I just hate this argument cause you can ask any nb who medically transitioned if people 'take them seriously' and usually the answer is#A resounding no! Most people see nbs who medically transition as 'just trans with extra prns' and 'still about clothing'#idk I just hate the idea that I have to 'earn' legitimacy by rushing into something I haven't even found a proper safety net for#I feel like if you doin all this yappin but you not going out of your way to look out for people just starting hrt or need help post op#just shut the fuck up#idk it just find it funny like you do not benefit from that transmed shit at all but do you ig
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eorzean queer theory is in shambles [sequel to this]
transfem nonbinary estinien truthers. i know youre out there
#estinien varlineau#ffxiv wol#warrior of light#she's everything to me.#oomf said “babytrans estinien with the black skater skirt” in response to this and yk what im also truthing that#two things to understand here:#cas is trans#and he's also an idiot#he ran away from home at 14 he didn't attend a single health class#ffxiv#cA's art#oc; cas eversong (it's a stage name)
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IMPORTANT REMINDER!! ⚠️
HEALED (SH) SCARS ARE VALID AND NOTHING THAT HAS TO BE HIDDEN OR CENSORED !!! 🌀
this is my body. these scars show that I fought very fucking hard to survive this shit so fuck you if u judge me for that !
#let’s create a safe space#hate comments will be reported#my body doesn’t need a tw#all kinds of scars are valid#mental health awareness#sh recovery#trauma coping#normalize this#bd/sm blog#borderline personality disorder#bd/sm community#complex ptsd#u don’t need to understand#just be quiet#trans struggles
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rose tint my world (1975) - the rocky horror picture show
“i am just seven hours old”
#rocky horror picture show#rockys just like me fr#also dont condone richards like#views on trans women#at all#just want to put that out there#but my theatre troupe is doing rocky#sorry i havent been active at all#ive been rlly busy with school and health issues#thanks for understanding :)#blackout poetry#blackout poem#author#book#poetry
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officially at the Big Anxiety stage of career success. wondering when this stops being as bad 😔
#incessant meowing#personal#i understand that at a certain point it becomes inevitable to start running into people who will try to hurt your feelings#just by sheer numbers of how visibility works in an art career#but i feel so severely unequipped to process these things#i’m in therapy again getting help with this but it’s tough right now#and don’t worry 99% of people are so wonderful and lovely and i appreciate you all#and the hateful comments are still incredibly rare#i just feel really silly and over sensitive for still being affected by death wish/insult comments#somehow i feel like other people shrug those off really easily but i’m struggling#and i need to get better at dealing with this because i’m trans and i’m only getting MORE visibility#it’s such a double edged sword because on one hand this is supposed to be every artist’s dream come true#and it is! i’m so grateful for my work#but i am also extremely scared all the time#and it’s starting to take a significant toll on my health
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Being marginalized, especially in multiple ways, is just learning most people don’t give a shit about your happiness, health, or safety. It hurts the worst imo when even people in one marginalized group you’re a part of don’t give a shit about you bc you’re part of another marginalized group they don’t care about. And they’re not even honest about it, they pretend to care, and they think they’re good people as they’re hurting you.
#I’m just disappointed in most people at this point honestly#but it’s getting so hard to act normal around most people even for brief interactions#just got a haircut and the hairdresser refused to wear the N95 I brought in favor of a surgical mask and said she knows she’s not sick#and then give me bullshit health advice like that sunlight before noon is really healing and something about negative air when it rains#and then say how excited she was to see Dave Chapelle live#and she knows I’m trans and I’m sure she thinks of herself as an ally#this also goes for all the queer people who aren’t covid-conscious#and all the covid-conscious people who aren’t for disability justice#and racism in the queer community and pretty much any intersection of marginalized identities#I just don’t understand how people can care about one marginalized group and be completely disconnected from the others?#not being intersectional feels like it almost defeats the point#my post#original post#personal#a secret third kind of post#leftism#intersectional leftism#marginalized people#marginalized groups#socialism#communism#anarchism#anarchy
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"Transmasculine people who claim to be adversely affected by sexism are bioessentialists cloaked in progressive language, discrimination on the basis of ""biological sex"" isn't real!"
Oh right, sorry. I forgot that sexism in medical research means that endometriosis, ME/CFS, migraines, post-concussive syndrome, Raynaud's phenomenon, and so many other conditions are only understudied in women. Of course endometriosis For Men™, ME/CFS For Men™, migraines For Men™, post-concussive syndrome For Men™, Raynaud's phenomenon For Men™, etc., are all well-funded fields of research and totally understood. Medical research cares only about the gender of an individual patient, not the association of a condition with people of a certain gender. Patriarchal devaluation of women's health, women's illnesses being treated as fundamentally hysteric, and (peri)cissexist reductions of any individual to the reproductive system(s) they were born with clearly only affect people whose gender is woman, nobody else.
Wilfully ignorant motherfuckers.
#HOW can you rightfully argue that sexism is systemic#and ALSO claim that it only affects people according to their self-identified rather than socially-assigned gender.#i do not know how to explain to you that structural oppression has both personal and impersonal modalities#my own post wow#sorry for the heavy sarcasm this is just so fucking deeply frustrating#anyone who is sufficiently proximal to woman-ness gets caught up in this is it truly not difficult to understand#was my [conditions] being brushed aside medical sexism when i ID'ed as a girl but now that i ID as nonbinary the same dismissal is not#the same dismissal is not related to the fact that doctors still see me as basically-a-woman#a personal in a ''female body''#with Women's Health problems#obviously this is still fucking sexism!#and also obviously trans women experience a shitton of medical sexism!#they are not immune to ME/CFS or migraines or whatever just bc doctors see them as ''male bodied''!!!#they are gonna face the same ''i think this is all in your head'' sexist hysteric-woman bullshit!#but like. claiming that transmascs who arent women cant possibly face sexism just means you will not look at how sexism actually functions#fuck. cis men with migraines are still fucked by the sexist lack of research into a condition that so disproportionally disables women#this is not new. nothing I'm saying is new.
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imma bitch about gender™️ stuff real quick
getting married in the same year I realise I’m not cis is WHACK BRO wtf
like literally I’m going through one of the MOST gendered societal practices that exists while barely understanding my own identity and it’s so fuckin stressful and upsetting and fucking with me way worse than I thought
my fiancé is incredible and so is my best friend but even they aren’t used to it yet and I’m still barely comfortable with correcting anyone about my pronouns because I still have a voice in my head that’s saying none of this is real and I’m just overthinking and/or my illness is skewing how I feel about myself
but every time I have to encounter this whole “omg you’re a blushing bride to be!” I want to VOMIT it gives me such a visceral ICK and I’m so uncomfortable about it but I’m not even “out” to anyone besides a very intimate circle of people (and some people at work that I wanted to ‘test it out’ with who have probably already forgotten)
idfk I’m just in this weird gender limbo rn and I have this big event thing this week to go to to taste stuff and discuss details and it’s just about to be so miserably dysphoric for me
and I’ve never really experienced gender dysphoria in a real or intense way, so this is still new to me and it fucking sucks so much because my own brain isn’t even backing me up and is just telling me “you’re being dramatic just stop trying to be cool and different” even though I know that’s not true
UGH
this is so stupid
just don’t perceive me please I’m begging
#it doesn’t help I don’t ‘look’ the part#and yes I know that’s not real#but I mean to say I’m visibly cis#and because I’m still not comfortable telling everyone or correcting pronouns#I feel stuck#on top of other identity shit tied to my appearance#and my current health situation#it all just feels like a lot#ANYWAY#disclaimer here that I’m not an idiot and obviously understand the plight of trans and NB folks who experience this daily#as well as worse things that I’ve never had to deal with due to my cis and/or passing privilege#it’s just frustrating and making me feel stupid#gender shit#ax says stuff
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who up feeling the weight of the rapid collapse of the us rn
#scotus overturned the chevron deference basically making it that the SC now determines what any unclear/ambigious/open to interprtation laws#or statues means. and not experts in the field or agencies with jurisdiction over them. just fucking scotus#which. probably is going to affect the tennesse trans heal care ban given that MUCH of health care clauses and shit are open ended and will#now be soley interpreted by scotus and not real actual professionals who know wtf theyre talking about#(this is all just my understanding so pls take that with a grain of salt)#AND THATS NOT EVEN TOUCHING ON YESTERDAYS DISASTER OF A DEBATE#.txt
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I am once again begging online shop payment processing companies to allow me to enter a separate name for shipping and separate name for billing!!
It's the same address, I'm just trans and have not legally changed my personal name, but I still prefer to receive mail as my preferred name! Like it's literally my professional name, I do business as my preferred name.
Annoying as fuck, and I don't want to chance my bank rejecting the payment (though I'm sure someone at my bank has put a note to allow it on my account by now, since I've contacted them a couple times before when I realized too late that the billing section didn't let me input another "address/name" section, and they said the payment was fine in those cases.)
Anyway, legal name changes should be free and non-advertised for everyone. Tbh, you should get a free name change every time you file your taxes on time as an incentive for good citizen behaviour. Once I am elected pres-
#i think the one i just used didnt even have a separate billing address option which makes no sense#guess they dont want anyone giving any gifts making the buyer pay twice for shipping like that#maybe it was a fault of the mobile browser but i highly doubt it since many desktop sites look like mobile browsers these days#just so fucking frustrating. what if i lived somewhere where my legal name would out me? (im in the closet rn so doesnt matter)#i dont want to fucking see my legal name. im already forced to see it everywhere else.#i dont wanna ruin my mood on a day when im supposed to be getting a package which should be a happy thing yknow#vent#transphobia#speaking of like i would change my name but i dont want to and cant afford the fucking ridiculous price for it#and i dont wanna advertise it in a newspaper either! shits expensive as fuck on top of the hundreds to file the court paperwork!#i already tried to do it once with money in hand and the receptionist told me that even tho it was for gender identity i could not...#...avoid the newspaper thing unless i also changed my legal gender marker. and i had to back out bc i have reproductive health problems#i dont want a gender marker change to fuck with my getting healthcare#(i did change the gender letter on my ID card later tho which only took a signature on a paper no hassle with anything)#it really really fucking sucks how all these little things add up all the time#especially when im closeted while living w family who wont even use my preferred name#the real kicker is that. both my dad and his dad used preferred names. my dad used his middle name#and i use part of my middle name. yet my dad even in death still gets the dignity of being called his preferred name and i dont#sexism at its finest#reasons why i dont even hint at being trans around my moms side bc i already got bullied by them for wanting to use my middle name#ive literally been asking them to call me my mid name since i was 12. and theyve been acting like im trying to be someone else#its the same middle name on my birth certificate they gave me. i dont understand why they wouldnt want me to use it#but yeah i stay closeted bc i dont wanna deal with the name drama amplified exponentially for gender#prob get kicked out too cuz theyre queerphobic as fuck and i cant work rn and dont have a car#id have to just go full feral and live in the woods with the lizards where i belong#Cori.exe#Post.exe#fuck lol just looked it up and u cant change ur first name if u get married. i cant avoid the fucking fee man. let me be cori#literally why is it cheaper to get married than change ur first name! bullshit! marriage has so much more legal implications#transphobic queerphobic aromanticphobic privacyphobic poorphobic shit ass fucking state ive literally been cori most of my life ffs cmon
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You know what? Yes, top surgery WOULD fix all my problems. Fuck you
#it literally would. my mental health is poor BECAUSE OF MY BODY.#if i could fix it then i WOULD BE HAPPIER#i dont want top surgery cause itll fix my mental illness or whatever the fuck my parents think.#i want it cause IT'LL FIX ISSUES THAT MY MENTAL ILLNESS IS MAKING WORSE#does that make sense???#idk how to communicate this to my parents.#like no i don't think testosterone or top surgery is a magic button to make all my problems go away.#BUT IT KIND OF ALSO IS. IT'D HELP A FUCKING LOT.#craperonipizza post#transgender#ftm trans#im SO FRUSTRATED#vent post#i mean im doing it anyway cause i need to and im a fucking adult.#but the opposition sucks yknow.#i know where theyre coming from. like concern bc yes its surgery and testosterone effects can be permanent...but thats kind of the point.#dont get me wrong my parents are doing amazing. i love them a lot#but its also so frustrating. cause they can't really understand what im going through no matter how much i talk to them. thats just a fact.
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Thinking about. That one post about art. And how it's never good enough. Since you're the one that made it. And how. It might relate to how I view myself?
#Sel talks#Like. Do I like the idea of a masculine body because I think it will make me less me?#I keep thinking about a line from “in stars and time” talking about. How maybe they changed because it was easier than learning to love#Himself as he was.#Keep thinking about something my therapist said last session. About how he would hope there's more restriction around accessing trans#Health-care than there is about getting a medical Marijuana card#And even if it comes from a place of good intent; is still a harmful idea?#I keep forgetting how much importance cis people put on transitioning. And it's just. Not? For me?#My body is just another form of expression for me to form and play with. And I feel like it might be hard to try and get someone who's#Not thought a lot about gender to understand.#I don't really want to lable it as “transitioning” either. My isat brainrot is wanting me to call it “Changing”; bit I'm not sure if that's#Quite accurate either. Like. We don't have a word for playing with different styles of clothes? Why do I need one for messing w other types#Of presentation?#Sigh...#I'm soooo tempted to just go on t and not do anything else. No name change. No sex change. And not tell anyone.#Why do I need to take into consideration how much my decision weighs on other people?#I feel like I've gotten too many reminders that “tomorrow's not promised” or “How we spend our days is how we spend our lives”#“Don't live wondering” or whatever that old lesbian slogan was. “We're all going to die so who cares if it's a waste”? Some will wood song#I'm listening to. I just.#Why am I waiting for the perfect opertunity to transition? Or change or whatever.#I've always considered my want to masculinise as me taking “be the change you want to see” either too far or too literally#I want to see men in dresses!! And if no one else around here is going to do it I guess that falls on me!#Why must I follow everyone else's path to t?? I want to make my own!#Grrr barkbark#I feel so underequiped to change the world; why must I do it?? Can't it just change for me??
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I don't understand how people can't see trans women as women? What is their confusion? I was watching Bill Maher, him and Piers Morgan was discussing trans women in sports and how unfair it is that they can compete against biological women. They spouting all the bs one would think they would. It was just enraging me so much! That these two over 50 white men don't have the capacity or even the want to try to empathize what trans people in general go through. How much adversity they have struggle through just to exist in our world that is constantly against them. How they do with strength, dignity, grace, wisdom and this deep will power to be their true selves.
Those two over 50 white males were up there cracking such inappropriate jokes. And I'll admit I wanted to crack their heads.
Just I don't understand how people can be transphobic, I don't understand what their scared of exactly? It's nonsense... but what I do know is as long as we don't educate people about trans people and get rid of this horrible narrative that bs like Fox News and Bill Maher are saying it's not going to get better.
I'll end with I support trans people, trans women, trans men, trans kids, trans youth, trans everyone. May one day in the future we won't have use the word trans in front of any of it. 🏳️⚧️
#support trans people#support trans kids#support trans rights#support trans health care#trans women#trans men#trans rights#i don't understand#why are people transphobic#bill maher#piers morgan#trans people in sports#just so mad#lgbtqia+#trans#🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
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